Josh Abbott Band Stick to Standard Country Sounds on ‘Somewhere Down The Road’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
The minute-long instrumental with the bellowing cello and eerie cymbals that opens Somewhere Down The Road, along with the song that follows, “Astronaut,” belies the real sound of the rest of the album. Rather than an experimental take on the country sound that the Josh Abbott Band has been playing for the past decade and […]
Flaming Lips, Sylvan Esso, The Pharcyde, Tanya Tucker Lead 2024 Pure Imagination Festival Lineup
The female-led and curated, all-ages destination festival Pure Imagination has announced the Saturday line-up for its third edition, set to take place May 17 & 18, 2024. This year’s festival is headlined by The Flaming Lips, who are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of their tour for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, as well as critically […]
Zach Bryan, Dave Matthews Band, Tyler Childers, Neil Young, Beck Lead 2024 Bourbon & Beyond Festival
Festival producers Danny Wimmer Presents continue to roll out their 2024 festival lineups and have announced an all-star lineup of music artists for Bourbon & Beyond—the World’s Largest Bourbon & Music Festival—held September 19, 20, 21 & 22, 2024 at Highland Festival Grounds at Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky. DWP is proud to announce Bourbon & Beyond’s stacked music lineup featuring dozens of legends and […]
Alice in Chains Releasing 30th Anniversary Vinyl Editions Of ‘Jar of Flies’
Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, is abuzz with the announcement of a multi-format 30th anniversary reissue of Alice in Chains’ acclaimed Jar of Flies on March 22nd. Released exactly 30 years ago today (January 25, 1994), the EP made history as the first of its format to debut at No. 1 […]
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VIDEO PREMIERE: Wesley Dean Traverses a Rich American Landscape with Folk Tune “Don’t Look Back” Featuring Sarah Buxton
Wesley Dean is hot off the back of the Crazy Hearts Across America Summer tour where he and his family drove over 5000 miles from Nashville to Los Angeles in an RV via towns steeped in musical history, from Memphis to New Orleans, and Luckenbach to Las Vegas. With a director and cameraperson in tow, […]
Matador Records To Reissue Classic Butthole Surfers Albums – Share Video For “Butthole Surfer”
Matador Records will reissue a number of key catalog titles by legendary Texas band, The Butthole Surfers, including classic albums and EPs recorded during the band’s strange, grotesque, and ultimately unparalleled first decade. All of the records have been remastered under supervision from the group. On Wednesday (1/24) remastered audio of the first three releases […]
GOLDEN AGE THURSDAY: Big Pun “Still Not A Player” at ‘Showtime At The Apollo’ 1998
It is a rite of passage for every hip-hop fan to hear Big Pun’s 1998 debut Capital Punishment. It would be hard to consider yourself a fan of hip-hop’s history without giving the album the listen it deserves. The impact it leaves behind is almost as big as the hole left in the genre after […]
LISTEN: On “Royal Gum” Weekends Rock Out With Art Punk Arrangements
Weekends was formed in Baltimore in 2008 by Adam Lempel and Brendan Sullivan. They switch off guitar and drums and played with bands like Future Islands, Dan Deacon, and Beach House. In 2024, now living in New York (Greenpoint and Kingston) they are releasing a long-lost album recorded in 2014. The first Weekends song to […]
30 Years Later: Meat Puppets Finallly Hit The Charts With ‘Too High To Die’
30 years ago Meat Puppets released their iconic Too High to Die LP just months before their heralded performance with Nirvana on MTV Unplugged in New York for three of their own acoustic songs from Meat Puppets II. Brimming with 14 tracks (if you’re including the hidden bonus track “Lake of Fire”) of murky grunge […]